| ACT IV SCENE I | A street. | |
| | Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, andWILLIAM PAGE | |
| MISTRESS PAGE | Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou? | |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but, | |
| | truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing | |
| | into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly. | 5 |
| MISTRESS PAGE | I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young | |
| | man here to school. Look, where his master comes; | |
| | 'tis a playing-day, I see. | |
| | Enter SIR HUGH EVANS | |
| | How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day? | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play. | 10 |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | Blessing of his heart! | |
| MISTRESS PAGE | Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in | |
| | the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some | |
| | questions in his accidence. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | Come hither, William; hold up your head; come. | 15 |
| MISTRESS PAGE | Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your | |
| | master, be not afraid. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | William, how many numbers is in nouns? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Two. | |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | Truly, I thought there had been one number more, | 20 |
| | because they say, ''Od's nouns.' | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Pulcher. | |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace. | 25 |
| | What is 'lapis,' William? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | A stone. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | And what is 'a stone,' William? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | A pebble. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your prain. | 30 |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Lapis. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | That is a good William. What is he, William, that | |
| | does lend articles? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus | |
| | declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc. | 35 |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark: | |
| | genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Accusativo, hinc. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | I pray you, have your remembrance, child, | |
| | accusative, hung, hang, hog. | 40 |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | 'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative | |
| | case, William? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | O,--vocativo, O. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | Remember, William; focative is caret. | 45 |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | And that's a good root. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | 'Oman, forbear. | |
| MISTRESS PAGE | Peace! | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | What is your genitive case plural, William? | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Genitive case! | 50 |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | Ay. | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Genitive,--horum, harum, horum. | |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name | |
| | her, child, if she be a whore. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | For shame, 'oman. | 55 |
| MISTRESS QUICKLY | You do ill to teach the child such words: he | |
| | teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do | |
| | fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie upon you! | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | 'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no | |
| | understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the | 60 |
| | genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as | |
| | I would desires. | |
| MISTRESS PAGE | Prithee, hold thy peace. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns. | |
| WILLIAM PAGE | Forsooth, I have forgot. | 65 |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,' | |
| | your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be | |
| | preeches. Go your ways, and play; go. | |
| MISTRESS PAGE | He is a better scholar than I thought he was. | |
| SIR HUGH EVANS | He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page. | 70 |
| MISTRESS PAGE | Adieu, good Sir Hugh. | |
| | Exit SIR HUGH EVANS | |
| | Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long. | |
| | Exeunt | |
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